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NY 100-18676 CLAUDIA JONES is the author of an articlo in the "Tho Worker," Scptembor 4, 1949. This article was entitled, “We Seck Full Equality for Women." Due to the nature of the statements made by subject in this article, the major portion of it is being set forth verbatim. "Wo Seek Pull Equality for Women "Taking up the strugglo of the Suffragists, the Communists have set now tasks, new objectives in tho fight for a new status for women. The special value of Fosterts contribution. "By CLAUDIA JONES, Sccretary, Communist Party's National Women's Commission. "Tho leading rola of the Communist Party in the struggle to emancipate women from malo oppression, is ono of the proud contributions which our Party of Marxism- Leninism, the Communist Party, U.S.4., celobrates on its thirticth anniversary. "Marxism-Loninism exposes the core of the woman question and shows that the position of women in society is not aliways and everywhere the samé, but derives from woman's relation to the mode of production. "Under capitalism, tho inequality of women stems from exploitation of the working clasa by the capitalist class. But the oxploitation of women cuta across class lines and affects all women. Marxism- Leninism views the woman question as a special question which derives from the cconomie dependence of women upon mon, This cconomic dependence as ENGELS wrote over 100 years ago, carries with it the soxual oxploitation of CONFIGTIAL - 26 -